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How do i find out about an area?

BigBoy
BigBoy Posts: 23 Forumite
edited 17 April 2009 at 7:47PM in House buying, renting & selling
Hi,

I am looking to relocate and want to find out about the area I will potentially be moving to! Things like amenities, crime, transport links etc. Are there any websites that give you this info and the average price of properties?
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  • BallandChain
    BallandChain Posts: 1,922 Forumite
    Try this site:

    http://www.upmystreet.com/

    Scroll to bottom of that page. Everything you need there.
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,104 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    In the old days we were given day(s) off work to visit area and look round.
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    And you can ask here too; if anyone knows the area you'll be inundated with info!
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 17 April 2009 at 9:09PM
    Zoopla will tell you actual prices paid for properties in your target area, as well as providing estimates of what they should sell for - but as these are calculated by their software, they seem to be ... less than accurate, in a number of cases that people have cited here.

    yell.com for businesses
    qype for reviews of the above businesses

    google for anything and everything. Seriously. Want to know about crime figures? Put crime+town into google. Same applies to anything else -
    sports centre+town, pub+town, dentist+town, medical centre+town, NHS+town, etc etc
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    Places vary street to street. Nowt like a walk round on a Friday night to give you an idea though.
    :)
  • knickth
    knickth Posts: 7 Forumite
    aoooooooooooooooooo
  • Robert_Sterling
    Robert_Sterling Posts: 2,207 Forumite
    knickth wrote: »
    aoooooooooooooooooo

    aoooooooooooooooooo ?
    ..
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    That'll be someone's cat playing on their keyboard... :)
  • bob79
    bob79 Posts: 166 Forumite
    This site is also good:
    http://www.uklocalarea.com/
    its 'quality of life' indicator agrees very well with what my colleagues and friends think about the different areas in my city.
  • honeyD
    honeyD Posts: 855 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    bob79 wrote: »
    This site is also good:
    http://www.uklocalarea.com/
    its 'quality of life' indicator agrees very well with what my colleagues and friends think about the different areas in my city.

    Can I just thank you for this link. :)
    I found it very interesting. It shows our area as 300 on the most deprived, with 32,xxx beind the least deprived that is really something. We looked at an area we have been to and really like and it is a very good area. Its got very good ratings and good school report there 54.70% I think it was for A*-C GCSE's. Ah, to be able to afford to move hehe.
    Weight loss November 09-January 10: [STRIKE]13lbs[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]20lbs[/STRIKE] 27lbs! :j
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